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Australian Mom Brings Baby Back to Life After 2hrs of Loving Embrace
by Riyad Kalla on 26. Aug, 2010 in Life & World

Pictured above is Kate Ogg, her husband David and her lifeless baby son who was born premature at 27 weeks (~6.5 months) weighing 2lbs back in March 2010 in Sydney.

Ogg’s son was born along-side twin sister Emily, but after 20 mins of struggling, doctors were unable to get the little boy breathing successfully and declared him dead.

Doctors delivered the news to Kate and her husband and offered for them to embrace the baby while they say their goodbyes. What began as a tearful embrace of despair turned surreal when Kate unwrapped the baby from the blanket and held it against her chest; caressing and speaking to her son.

What happened next stopped everyone in their tracks; baby boy Jamie started to breath, opened his eyes and grabbed his mom’s finger.

The most incredible part of this story, the part that makes you think maybe we don’t understand all we need to understand about this world, the next or… biology… is that Kate had been embracing Jamie’s lifeless body for 2 hours.

Let that sink in… they didn’t try and revive the baby for 20 mins, give up, hand the baby to Kate and then Jamie came around 5 mins later. They handed Kate Ogg her dead baby boy and she held him for 2 hrs before he came back to life.

I’m sure there is a away to explain away this event with science and some form of primal hibernation, etc. etc. but in my book that was a miracle. A baby had a heart beat for 6.5 months inside of it’s mother, it is born, dies, has no heart beat for 2 hrs, then comes back to life.

Kate went on TV a bit after with Jaime and says her attributes the miracle to the skin-on-skin care (aka “kangaroo care” technique) she gave to Jaime in the hospital; something that is apparently on the rise in British hospitals.

I love that the world, as much as we think we understand, never stops delivering amazing events like this to remind us that we really don’t understand that much, maybe even it’s that we don’t understand the ultimate stuff that matters.

It is incredible/infuriating/amazing/whatever that if you walked around the Roman Empire around 0 AD, and someone asked you “Ohhh you are from the future! What happens when you die?” and your answer is basically still the same it was back then: I don’t know.

I guess this all falls into the category of “Stuff we weren’t meant to know” for whatever reason. Gives me all the more motivation to extract love and appreciation out of the little things I do understand instead.

Big thanks goes out to Regina Ross for sending this story in as well as DailyMail for the feel-good scoop!

Heard this on the radio on Friday and I must admit I was welling up a bit when I heard. Truly amazing. Miracles do happen.

Lovely story, great ending! And miracles do happen! This skin on skin thing.......I had that with my lads, born 5 years apart. The midwife, on both occasions, wanted to take my baby away immediately after birth to clean him up. NO WAY!!! Give him to me NOW! Blood and blubber everywhere, we cuddled for ages. I've never been closer!

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Maggie May wrote:

Lovely story, great ending! And miracles do happen! This skin on skin thing.......I had that with my lads, born 5 years apart. The midwife, on both occasions, wanted to take my baby away immediately after birth to clean him up. NO WAY!!! Give him to me NOW! Blood and blubber everywhere, we cuddled for ages. I've never been closer!

Boss story isn't it? I have kids meself, so it touched a nerve with me. Love great things like this and I'm absolutley made up for the parents.

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any sort of brain problems?

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F2F wrote:

any sort of brain problems?

Don't think so mate. Here's the story again but with more details.

Goodbye caresses revive 'no-hoper' Jamie

For two hours a grieving mum cradled the lifeless body of her newborn son and all her caresses and whispered words were rewarded when he suddenly began to move.

Born prematurely at 27 weeks and weighing just one kilo, doctors said that Jamie Ogg had no chance of survival.

Unlike his twin sister Emily, he was not breathing and after 20 minutes of trying to resuscitate him Jamie was declared dead.

His limp little body was handed to his mum Kate and dad David so they could grieve and say their goodbyes to him in private.

But after two hours of being spoken to, touched and cuddled, he began showing signs of life. And after being given breast milk on Kate's finger, he began breathing regularly.

Delighted mum Kate said yesterday: "He's a little fighter, as is his sister, and they are both doing amazingly well."

She added: "I took my gown off and arranged Jamie on my chest and just held him.

"He wasn't moving at all and we just started talking to him. We told him what his name was and that he had a sister. We told him the things we wanted to do with him throughout his life. After just five minutes I felt him move as if he were startled, then he started gasping more and more regularly.

"I thought, 'Oh my God, what's going on?' A short time later he opened his eyes. It was a miracle. Then he held out his hand and grabbed my finger.

"He opened his eyes and moved his head from side to side."

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Australian Kate said they got a message to their doctor, insisting Jamie was showing signs of life, but he sent back a midwife who told them these movements were natural reflexes and that there was no way Jamie could still be alive.

But Kate and David, who live in Sydney, refused to give up on their baby boy.

She recalled: "I said to my husband, 'What if he lives? We could be the luckiest parents in the world'.

"I gave Jamie some breast milk on my finger, he took it and started regular breathing. At that point the doctor came back, got a stethoscope, listened to Jamie's chest and just kept shaking his head. He said, 'I don't believe it, I don't believe it'."

David told Aussie TV show Today Tonight: "Luckily, I've got a very strong, very smart wife. She instinctively did what she did.

"If she hadn't have done that, then Jamie probably wouldn't be here."

The doctor who delivered Jamie in March refused to be interviewed for the show.

Kate, who gave birth after a threehour labour, has now told how vital "skin-on-skin" care, or "kangaroo touch" as it is known Down Under, can be for a sick baby.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/08/27/two-hours-of-mum-s-cuddles-bring-dead-baby-boy-back-to-life-115875-22517013/#ixzz0xz6N1Fur
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F2F wrote:

any sort of brain problems?

Hard to tell. The kid is Australian.

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F2F wrote:

any sort of brain problems?

Hard to tell. The kid is Australian.[/quot

Shouldn't make jokes about it.

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Wheaty wrote:

F2F wrote:

any sort of brain problems?

Hard to tell. The kid is Australian.

wheaty youre terrible!

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Oldie wrote:

Maggie May wrote:

Lovely story, great ending! And miracles do happen! This skin on skin thing.......I had that with my lads, born 5 years apart. The midwife, on both occasions, wanted to take my baby away immediately after birth to clean him up. NO WAY!!! Give him to me NOW! Blood and blubber everywhere, we cuddled for ages. I've never been closer!

Boss story isn't it? I have kids meself, so it touched a nerve with me. Love great things like this and I'm absolutley made up for the parents.

It is a wonderful story. It sounds like a miracle but in reality it was mother nature with a mother's tenacity to will her child to live!